Discriminant function sexing of fragmentary and complete femora: standards for contemporary Croatia (CROSBI ID 107404)
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Šlaus, Mario ; Strinović, Davor ; Škavić, Josip ; Petrovečki, Vedrana
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Discriminant function sexing of fragmentary and complete femora: standards for contemporary Croatia
Determining sex is one of the first and most important steps in identifying decomposed corpses or skeletal remains. Previous studies have demonstrated that populations differ from each other in size and proportion and that these differences can affect metric assessment of sex. This paper establishes standards for determining sex from fragmentary and complete femurs in a modern Croatian population. Six discriminant functions were generated, one using seven variables, three using two variables and two employing one variable. Results show that complete femora can be sexed with 94.4% accuracy. The same overall accuracy, with slight differences in male/female accuracy, was achieved using a combination of two variables defining the epiphyses, and with the variable maximum diameter of the femoral head.
anthropology; sex determination; discriminant functions; femur; Croatia
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